Kia Ora, (Hello)

Hi all my name is Bowden Ashton ( BOW ) greetings if your reading this we are talking, have just finished talking or your listening to me talk to someone else .

I arrived in Australia in 1989 and have worked in the mining, Transport & Logistics industries and as an occupational health and safety officer and trainer and assessor in most of the VK states for the passed 28 years. As you can tell by the photo on the front page i was also a Fire fighter in the Queensland Fire & Rescue Service and was in the service for 18 years.

I passed my foundation license in January 2013 but i have been operating HF radio's for many years on a lot of other HF frequencies and often run the morning and afternoon nets for The HF Radio club VKE237 via a phone link through the Base's at Cobar NSW and Wiluna WA, I have been around radio's for about 35 Year's so it kinda makes me an old hand at it. I passed my Standard call in 2013 and received my new call VK4MBA shortly after.

I have now moved back home to New Zealand and hold the Callsign ZL1HX so come and visit some time.

The Shack: Kenwood TS 2000 & TS440s HF Running into a 3 Element Triband Beam , G5RV at 10 Meters & a CG3000 Autotune box and 50 foot of wire.

The Mobile: Yaesu FT857D & ATAS 120A , Yaesu FT 8800R 2 Meter 70cm rig & ID 51A Plus 2 DStar

DSTAR: Rig ID51A Plus 2, DVMEGA Hot Spot at the QTH on the DCS626A network. My hotspot / repeater will soon  be relocated to a site on top of Cape Rodney 60 Ks north of Auckland with line of site to Auckland in the south and the Bay of islands in the north.

The frequency for my Hotspot/Repeater ( ZL1HXD) is 145.450 MHz - 600 split.

FOR MY DSTAR PAGE CLICK ON ZL1HXD

It has been nice talking to you and i hope to make the contact again in the not to distance future.

Cheers 73s ZL1HX

Hei kona ra (Farewell)

Tena tatou katoa